Record No: CB 118670    Version: 1 Council Bill No: CB 118670
Type: Ordinance (Ord) Status: Passed
Current Controlling Legislative Body City Clerk
On agenda: 5/23/2016
Ordinance No: Ord 125042
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing, in 2016, acceptance of funding from non-City sources; authorizing the heads of the Executive Department, Department of Neighborhoods, Department of Parks and Recreation, Human Services Department, Seattle City Light, Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle Police Department, Seattle Information Technology Department, and Seattle Public Utilities to accept specified grants and private funding and to execute, deliver, and perform corresponding agreements; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
Sponsors: Tim Burgess
Supporting documents: 1. Summary and Fiscal Note, 2. Summary Att A – 2016 Q1 Grant Acceptance Summary Table, 3. Signed Ordinance 125042, 4. Affidavit of Publication
Related files: CB 118671

CITY OF SEATTLE

ORDINANCE __________________

COUNCIL BILL __________________

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AN ORDINANCE authorizing, in 2016, acceptance of funding from non-City sources; authorizing the heads of the Executive Department, Department of Neighborhoods, Department of Parks and Recreation, Human Services Department, Seattle City Light, Seattle Department of Transportation, Seattle Police Department, Seattle Information Technology Department, and Seattle Public Utilities to accept specified grants and private funding and to execute, deliver, and perform corresponding agreements; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.

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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF SEATTLE AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. The Mayor or the Mayor’s designee, the Director of the Department of Neighborhoods, the Superintendent of Parks and Recreation, the Director of the Human Services Department, the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of Seattle City Light, the Director of Transportation, the Chief of Police, and the Director of Seattle Public Utilities are authorized to accept the following non-City funding from the grantors listed below, and to execute, deliver, and perform, on behalf of The City of Seattle, agreements for the purposes described below. The funds, when received, shall be deposited in the receiving fund identified below to support, or as reimbursement for, the corresponding appropriations set forth in the ordinance introduced as Council Bill 118671.

Item

Department

Grantor

Purpose

Amount

Fund

1.1

Executive

National Endowment for the Arts

Seattle is one of three cities invited to co-develop and participate in the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) pilot Songwriting Challenge. The Office of Arts & Culture will work with the partner to provide project management and fiscal control for the Challenge in Seattle/King County as well as collaborate and exchange ideas with other cities, NEA and national partners; create a system which will reach a diverse pool of youth in both formal and informal music/music theatre learning environments; and provide support for potential Challenge applicants through workshops and/or other educational experiences and resources.

$    15,000

Arts Account (00140)

1.2

Executive

The Seattle Foundation

The Creative Advantage program in ARTS will partner with the Seattle Public Schools to manage a series of trainings for Media Arts and Technology Integration. The series will build teacher capacity to integrate digital literacy into their content areas, providing skills and teaching strategies in video and audio production, graphic design, and computer animation.

$    31,000

Arts Account (00140)

1.3

Department of Neighborhoods (DON)

King Conservation District

The grant will fund compost and tool purchases among other activities in the P-Patch community gardens which are consistent with the mission of King Conservation District, a special purpose district organized and existing under authority of Chapter 89.08 RCW that engages in activities and programs to conserve natural resources, including soil and water, which activities are declared to protect and promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the state of Washington.

$    16,000

General Subfund (00100)

1.4

Department of Neighborhoods (DON)

Living Cities

This grant will support the City’s participation in the City Accelerator cohort and will provide funding to pilot leading innovations in local government, focusing on outreach and engagement efforts. The project will focus on internal mechanisms, making modifications to and essentially building a new practice of how we conduct outreach and engagement.

$    79,000

General Subfund (00100)

1.5

Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR)

King County

This grant supports the Virgil Flaim Park Skatespot Development project (K730182) and will be used to develop a skatespot, relocate the basketball court, and make related improvements to the park located in Lake City.

$    75,000

2008 Parks Levy Fund (33860)

1.6

Human Services Department (HSD)

Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

The grant will provide funding to pay for training to youth-serving providers throughout Seattle in trauma-informed practice and suicide prevention.

$  278,000

Human Services Operating Fund (16200)

1.7

Executive

The Bloomberg Family Foundation, Inc.

The total grant, now in its second of three planned years, will total over $2,500,000. The grant will continue to fund an in-house innovation consultancy team working on City priorities, using an “Innovation Delivery” approach, supporting agency leaders and staff through a data-driven process to assess problems, generate responsive new interventions, develop partnerships, and deliver measurable results.

$  887,128

General Subfund (00100)

1.8

Executive

Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT)

This is an amendment to an existing grant which supports consultant services for permitting, acquisition, and installation of a Navigational Buoy System to warn of approaching aircraft

$    41,617

General Subfund (00100)

1.9

Executive

Washington State University Energy Program

This grant supports OSE’s home energy efficiency program, Community Power Works, by providing state Department of Commerce funds to offer home upgrade incentives.

$  500,000

General Subfund (00100)

1.10

Seattle City Light (SCL)

South Central Washington Resource and Development Council

This grant will allow City Light to expand its work to assess wildfire risk near the Skagit Project and increase preparedness.

$    12,500

City Light Fund (41000)

1.11

Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT)

Community Transit and Washington State Department of Transportation

This item accepts two grants related to Downtown Seattle Transit Coordination. These grants support a multi-agency effort to address system changes that result from changes to bus operations in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel, the expansion of Sound Transit Link Light Rail, the opening of the SR 99 Bored Tunnel Project, the Central Waterfront Project and other private and public projects in the downtown region.

$  100,000

Transpor-tation Operating Fund (10310)

1.12

Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT)

Washington Safe Routes to School Program

This grant creates safer, accessible walking routes at several locations by Rainier View Elementary. The project targets intersection crossing improvements on two arterials on the walking route to school, which will include curb ramps and curb extensions.

$  420,000

Transpor-tation Operating Fund (10310)

1.13

Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT)

Washington Traffic Safety Commission

This grant will provide funds to implement Pedestrian Safety Zones in historically underrepresented communities to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries with a data-driven approach.

$    45,000

Transpor-tation Operating Fund (10310)

1.14

Seattle Police Department (SPD)

Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs

The grant funds will be used to create a Crime Gun Task Force, increase capacity for ballistic analysis, improve data-driven analysis of firearm and gang crime and support victim intervention strategies

$  146,840

General Subfund (00100)

1.15

Seattle Police Department (SPD)

Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs

This agreement funds the Washington State Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

$  858,000

General Subfund (00100)

1.16

Seattle Police Department (SPD)

Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance

This grant funds law enforcement programs in Seattle and surrounding jurisdictions.

$  604,936

General Subfund (00100)

1.17

Seattle Police Department (SPD)

Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance

This grant supports planning and implementation of strategies to address challenges posed by reentry after incarceration.

$  997,210

General Subfund (00100)

1.18

Seattle Public Utilities (SPU)

King County Flood Control District

These funds will be used to replace a failed outfall at the west end of NW 120th Street. This project will also install a storm drain pipe and repair roadside ditches to increase flooding service levels in the right-of-way and on private properties.

$1,064,383

Drainage and Waste-water Fund (44010)

1.19

Seattle Public Utilities (SPU)

King County Flood Control District

This will allow SPU to design and permit a project that would remove four undersized driveway culverts and replace them with 12-foot arch culverts, and widen the stream channel in order to increase flood service levels along private and public property that runs adjacent to Longfellow Creek.

$  200,000

Drainage and Waste-water Fund (44010)

Total

$6,371,614

 

Unspent funds so appropriated shall carry forward to subsequent fiscal years until they are exhausted or abandoned by ordinance.

                     Section 2. The Chief Technology Officer and the Director of Seattle Public Utilities are authorized to accept the following non-City funding from the grantors listed below, and to execute, deliver, and perform, on behalf of The City of Seattle, agreements for the purposes described below.

Item

Department

Grantor

Purpose

Amount

Fund

2.1

Cable Television Franchise Subfund (CBLFEE)

Comcast

The legislation approving the Comcast agreement already provided for the acceptance of $50,000, but the total ended up being $100,000. Therefore, the $150,000 captures both the remaining 2015 contribution and the full 2016 contribution. The contribution, along with internet and cable services provided to community organizations, will enhance the City’s effort to reduce the digital divide for disadvantaged residents consistent with the goals of the Digital Equity Initiative.

$    150,000

Cable Television Franchise Subfund (00160)

2.2

Seattle Public Utilities (SPU)

King County Flood Control District

Funds received are to reimburse SPU for design, permitting, and construction costs incurred in 2015 for storm drainage improvements near Licton Springs Park in northwest Seattle. Improvements included inlet modifications on Woodlawn Ave N to increase capacity and reduce frequency of clogging, and adding capacity to the drainage system along Woodlawn Ave N between N 95th St and N 92nd St.

$    829,723

Drainage and Waste-water Fund (44010)

Total

$979,723

 

Section 3. Any act consistent with the authority of this ordinance taken prior to its effective date is hereby ratified and confirmed.

 

Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force 30 days after its approval by the Mayor, but if not approved and returned by the Mayor within ten days after presentation, it shall take effect as provided by Seattle Municipal Code Section 1.04.020.

Passed by the City Council the ____ day of ________________________, 2016, and

signed by me in open session in authentication of its passage this

_____ day of ___________________, 2016.

 

                                                                                                         ____________________________________

                                                                                                         President __________ of the City Council

 

                     Approved by me this ____ day of _____________________, 2016.

 

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                                                                                                         Edward B. Murray, Mayor

 

                     Filed by me this ____ day of __________________________, 2016.

 

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                                                                                                         Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk

 

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